This small town gets its first mention in the documents of the Great Lithuanian Principality in the 16th century. Near to the town’s big central square stand the St. Theresa’s Catholic Church, an Orthodox church and late in 18th to early 19th century traders’ houses. A Piars Collegium stands attached to the back of the Catholic church. A seminary and a high school were founded there in 1726. In the 18th to 19th centuries, the famous professors Kazimir Narbut, Stanislav Boniface Yundill, Anel Dovgird all lectured here. The famous scientist Ignaty Domeiko was also a student of he Shchuchin Collegium.
St. Theresa’s Catholic Church was built in 1827 in the style of Classicism, alongside a late Baroque Piars Church. In the 19th century the Catholic church was remodeled by known Belarussian painters Andriolli and Silivanovich.
St. Mikhail the Archangel’s Orthodox Church is a building belonging to the second half of the 19th century. Along with the Catholic church and one-storey houses, it fits aptly into the original architectural ensemble.
The palace of the Drutsky-Lyubetskys family is located in an old botanical park that was founded in the second half of the 18th century by the botanist B.Yundill. The old palace built in 1715 by Yuzef Piolli was reconstructed in the second half of the 19th century in an early Classicism style by the architect de Flaners.
Twenty kilometers from Shchuchin is another small town – Zheludok.
